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RAIN 20080302
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.
Librarians and archivists demand US return of stolen
Iraqi documents
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA
... demanded the return of these documents to INLA because "they are the
inalienable public property and belong in the national archive without
delay. ...
<http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/mar2008/iraq-m01.shtml>
Stealing Corporate Secrets
Energy Central - Denver,CO,USA
Indeed, industrial espionage can range from stealing intellectual property
to trade secrets to marketing materials -- all of which could be obtained
by ...
<http://www.energycentral.com/centers/energybiz/ebi_detail.cfm?id=470>
Judge Relents, Restores Wikileaks as Master of Its
Domain
E-Commerce Times - USA
US District Court Judge Jeffrey White lifted the injunction he had
previously imposed to keep the site from spreading possible trade secrets.
...
<http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Judge-Relents-Restores-Wikileaks-as-Master-of-Its-Domain-61911.html>
Safety Net: New Insurance Coverage For
Information-Technology Risks
Mondaq News Alerts (subscription) - London,UK
... of reopening credit card accounts; and by vendors, clients, and
business partners for the costs of disrupted operations, or disclosure of
trade secrets. ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=57634>
The Paper Chase in Little Rock
Washington Post - United States
"Generally, if he starts a particular FOIA [Freedom of Information Act]
request or he starts a block of pages . . . he's going to finish it," said
Melissa ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/29/AR2008022902989.html>
Missing files allegation investigated
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
Such records rarely are given to historical groups or even entered into the
state archives, she said. Officials still haven't verified whether such
files ...
<http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080301/NRSTAFF/538103781>
JFK files belong in Dallas,
DA says
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
After going through about half the files, Mr. Thomas said, he is not sure
what to make of them. "If you're looking for a historical record of the
Jack Ruby ...
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-jfkfight_01met.ART0.State.Edition2.4643826.html>
Guinness World Records Validates Longest Document
Scan
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
In order to set the record, BBH had to perform an uninterrupted scan on a
single page, storing the results in a continuous file. The original
document had ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206901021>
White House E-Mail Gone Missing
New York Times - United States
In the last four years, the administration has received repeated warnings
from the National Archives about missing e-mail records protected by
federal law. ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/opinion/01sat3.html?ref=opinion>
Nazi Research Records Explored At Sunday Thomas
Balch Lecture
Leesburg Today - Leesburg,VA,USA
She has served as a consultant to several major organizations, was the
first corporate archivist for Wells Fargo Bank. She began her career at the
Ohio ...
<http://www.leesburg2day.com/articles/2008/02/29/entertainment/cal931tbalchlec022908.txt>
Recovery of missing e-mails would be costly, says
White House official
Federal Times - USA
President Bush replaced a Clinton-era system that failed to archive more
than 2 million e-mails. And officials say most of the missing e-mails are
stored on ...
<http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=3392569>
New German Archive Focuses on Music Silenced by the
Nazis
Deutsche Welle - Germany
According to Jennu Swensson, one of the archive employees, the center was
the next logical step. "This music is such a huge treasure today,"
she
said. ...
<http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3158764,00.html>
Wikileaks Wins Back Its Domain
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... its legal offensive to prevent Wikileaks.org from distributing what it
claims are confidential documents containing private information on bank
clients. ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206901172>
No crime in alleged destruction of mystery files
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
Destruction of records in excess of 20 years old, if that occurred, would
not violate any laws unless there was some active court case, Henderson
said. ...
<http://blog.news-record.com/staff/offtherecord/archives/2008/02/no_crime_in_all.shtml>
Love of history: Lorene Smith named Blount County
historian
Maryville Daily Times - Maryville,TN,USA
"When they came -- they were eight-by-10 glass negatives -- I literally
cried when I held them up and saw that they were scenes I had never seen
before. ...
<http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/20080302/WOMEN/316667365>
Piles of bureaucracy, history
Appeal-Democrat - Marysville,CA,USA
Despite a city policy of keeping routine documents no longer than five
years (state law requires municipalities to keep meeting minutes and land
deeds ...
<http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/floor_61009___article.html/city_unused.html>
Calamity diary on display
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
Orissa State Archive is the central repository of government of Orissa
meant for housing the non-current records of enduring value for
administrative use as ...
<http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080303/jsp/nation/story_8972247.jsp>